Knights of Titan

Grey Knights are chugging along. I have a 1000 pt list planned out and probably not very competitive but its fitting for the style I/m going with. I am done to 8 models left to build which 4 are rhino bodies. Sadly only 5 models are painted of the 25 in the list.

I have moved away from playing the 3rd Brotherhood under Grand Master Voldus to the 6th Brotherhood under Grand Master Anval Laraon

6th Brotherhood 'The Rapiers' : The 6th are known as stringent taskmasters and strategic thinkers. The Grand Master of the 6th, the High Seneschal of the Citadel of Titan, is tasked with crafting the most elite and deadly strike forces. Rather than mass firepower, the 6th relies on surgical strikes of elite smalls quads. When mass manpower is necessary, the 6th will deploy mindless Servitors to bog down the enemy to allow the Grey Knights to focus on higher risk targets


Why the change? No Special characters, Rapid Strikes/ Responses, and fits my build better. Also allows me to convert my HQs more.  No need for Stern when I can build/ Convert a plastic  brother captain from the box with a few other parts. Voldus will have his hammer replaced with a Halbred and be used to support my back line with his relic stormbolter and Gate of Infinity psychic power.

My main Hq will be a Brotherhood Champion due to saving points and he fits with most of my forces. Plus he can have a plus 3 to his wound roll.....with D3 damage a hit....with 4 attacks.... so 12 wounds possible.

Whoops......

Well with Bolter and Chainsword being down, I kind of forgot to update the blog and had some other hobbies I was working on.

So here's an update on all the 40k projects:

- Adepta Sororitas Project- Stalled
-Raptors Adeptus Astartes- Stalled
-Exorcists Adeptus Astartes- Stalled
-Crimson Fists Adeptus Astartes- Purchased Icons and Squad markings....stalled too
NOTE- I have just not felt like working on these projects as they are airbrush heavy and lack of time for me to airbrush. Also weather is not helping either.....
-Grey Knights- Paint in progress.....Seriously

So I switched over to "building" actual Grey Knights for Kill Team...not Exorcists counting as Grey Knights. While looking through youtube videos I found a video from Sledgehammer studios on How to paint Grey Knights quickly 

With a Paint guide in hand I tackled building first 5 Kill team Members:

• Justicar with a Nemesis force Sword (I really am confused why I built him with it as my lists had him with a Pair of Nemesis Falchions)
• Combat Specialist with a Pair of Nemesis Falchions
• Zealot Specialist with a Pair of Nemesis Falchions (seeing a theme here)
• Comms Specialist with a Psilencer
• Grey Knight Halbred......

Built and primed I went to work painting my Justicar and 40k list building.....Next thing I know I have 3 5 man strike teams with various load outs and a Brother Champion to count as my "Commander" hopefully. 

The FAQ dropped and well models got cheaper cause Falchions are now 1 pt for the pair not 1 pt per blade but needing 2. and well Psilencer is no longer comms as he cant buff himself...heavy it is.

Friday will be my first game of kill Team against Deathguard.....outnumbered by 3 models cause he of pox walkers...hopefully I do good. 

Exorcists project

So Exorcists were being worked on....ie Removing magnets from the "psilencer" heavy gunner. I have decided not to magnetize everything but continue up scaling and conversions I have planned.

The project is restarting as a Kill Team Campaign roster listed as such:

Leader- Justicar- Dual Falchions
Specialist- Veteran dual Falchions
Specialist- Zealot Dual falchions
Specialist Combat- Dual Falchions.....see a trend here
Specialist Comms- Psilencer or PSycannon have not decided yet
Specialist Heavy- Whatever the comms does not get
Specialist Demolitions- Incinerator
Fire team: 2 Justicars (1 halbred, 1 Daemon Hammer), 6 Grey Knights (1 Warding staff and the rest will have halberds I believe)

My kill team is just under 300 pts....for this roster. With Rogue trader and the commander rule I can add my Planned Conversion of FW's Knight Errant Tylos Rubio as my future commander....but wait


15 grey knight strike models, 3 justicars, 3 heavies........that means Exorcists tactical Demi Squads 1-3 will be done and since Tylos Rubio is in Power armor it can be my Brother champion......BAM Patrol and Kill Team done

now to get working on them

But lets talk about Tylos Rubio real quick and my palns for him:

Parts Break down

keeping the head and his Psychic Hood and torso torso to be chopped below belt and at thighs to extend height

All this will go to the bits box...

I'll add a MK IV helmet to his belt and some other doodads and I am using this model's load out for him

Exorcists continuing saga

I've been thinking do I really need to magnetize everything?

This project has stalled but now that the decals are here, I am hopping to get time to work on them and My "Eversor Scion" Kill Team, and Adepta Sororitas

Order of Our Martyred Lady

Well Dragon Forge Bases are washed and ready for prep work. Canoness Athena received her new Melta barrel for her Combi Melta as the previous one was lost.....again. And the major task of cutting the pewter tabs off the legs was accomplished. Just need to file and smooth out fit and start prepping them for pinning to bases and off to paint for everything....hopefully next week.

Wont have time over the next few days as other projects (non 40k) will be taking priority.

Order of Our Martyred Lady Adepta Sororitas

My Adepta Sororitas army is moving a long slowly......as the normal for me, BUT I have a good excuse this time.

Haboob what was known as a Dust storm

So it is Monsoon Season here in AZ, which means it maybe a good time to paint then it rains out of nowhere or we get hit with a Haboob which is just a funny named dust storm....and a stupid name at that. 

But I digress, My 500 pt list is cleaned, filed, weapons drilled,  ready for primer if the weather ever agrees to it. Still need to wash and clean their Dragon Forge bases and prep all the models for pinning to their base, which I'm not looking forward to cutting the tabs off their feet. 

Decals Proofs

I've been really busy lately with other hobbies but I did get the proof for my decals from Chapter customizer.

A Spiritu Dominatus....

So lately I've been listening to Amazon Audible books from Black Library.  even though I have read Faith and Fire many a  times I still bought the audible book. So the other day I was working on My GK psilencer Strike team member and the next day I thought I work on the next member of the squad....I didn't. I started working on the MKIB immolator project I've been sitting on for a while. The next day I was hangout with some friends at my FLGS and playing with his knights.....yeah I had to roll for him while he was occupied and his GF almost took out the knight I was rolling for. Later that day I found my self stripping a bunch of Adepta Sororitas models in LA Totally Awesome (its a $1 at Dollar Tree). Then pointing out lists for my Sisters....its a sickness. 

So Im back to working on my Order of the Martyred Lady Adepta Sorotias army for 8th edition. I've been watching a lot of painting videos from Janene over at Mini War Gaming to try different techniques to make them stand out.

So far I plan on getting the 500 pts done for them and continue adding points (250 or 500) over time. Right now the army will be a patrol led by Canoness Athena (as always), Imagifier, a few small Battle Sister squads, Dominions, Seraphim and Retributors. 

I placed a Custom Decal order from Chapter Customizer  because the only decals I have for my order are wrong. 

Old logo, new one is same but in white with red skull

I have 50 32mm Sanctuary bases in their Fleur De Lis and non Fleur De Lis pattern, both Hero stlyes bases, Fleur De Lis, and the large ruins set from Dragon Forge   I planned on using for my Adepta Sororitas. Since Dragon Forge is a one person operation and takes time for him to make them, I figured it was time to order more since I'm using 1 Hero (40mm base) and 26 32mm bases plus 5 pieces from the ruins. But I ordered 2 100mm bases and the smaller ruins set too.  

For what?

The 2 Armiger Helverins I am adding to the army. I honestly feel that Sisters should not have a LoW in 40k and rely on Knights for that purpose so I going to add @ 1500 pts of Knights to my army in the form of 2 Helverins, 2 Warglaives, a Knight Gallant and a Knight ....I'm not sure but it will have the minigun.....so Crusader or Warden.

So 1 Helverin is in the list at 1750 but it may become 2...at a cost of repressors and rhinos tho. 

The Knights will either by heavily weathered or off white and reds. and I'll be using Hawkshroud rules. Even tho they will be "Freeblades"' or a house joined a War of Fath.

WIP of Justicar

Crazy Work Schedule is over.....back to 5 8 hr shifts..........

So to celebrate I started working on my Exorcists (count as Grey Knights) Kill Team/ Army. 

Brother Justicar Dradon Andref of the 1st Tactical Strike squad With his Nemesis Daemon Morning Star (Hammer) 

His arms, head, backpack, and melee weapons are all magnetized. I added the Justicar GK Hood to help further distinguish them as GK on the table top.

Still have to do all the GS work (gaps, tabard, and pruity seals, but over all Im happy with him so far. 5 more guys to do for his squad. I need stronger arm/ shoulder magnets. Also I went with a 1mm thigh spacer which keeps him a tad shorter than a primaris marine which was the goal. 

Exorcists build ideas

So after talking with my regular opponent last night, he agreed that with all the little changes I'm doing that changing all the blades and not the just the hammers needs to be done to give it that extra flair. As a cost saving choice I will be making the weapons out plastic card.

As an idea here is what I'm thinking the shapes will look like.

All blades will be similar to this shape and be a little bit modified. 

Add the belt feed wrist mounted storm bolter, nemesis weapons, pouches and this is what Justicar Dradon Andref of the Exorcists 5th Company, 1st Tactical squad will look very similar too. 

Justicar Andref and his squad will pull double duty as a Kill Team and as the main squad or my army

Also we decided to build the army in 500 pt blocks instead of the normal 250 as it allows more variables. The planned list does not use Paladins so I think my terminators will be painted in this scheme:

If I decide to run Paladins I will not paint the regular terminators shoulder pads black. 

Exorcists planning continues.....

Well the plan continues on pace as expected and the first 6 heavy bolters and 3 boxes of 5 man Strike squads have arrived.

I have decided to change out the weapons some what.....to give them a more brutal look. Still deciding if I want to spend the money and by Dark Elf weapons or design them myself. The hammer heads will be replaced with maul heads from the Dark Angel Deathwing knight sprue.

I'm gonna buy a sternguard heavy flamer and possible a grav cannon for the Incinerator and Psycannon conversions.

Exorcists plan keeps on rolling.........

So I have been reviewing some the tactics and build guides online for the Grey Knights.....I don't expect to win but I rather have a cool looking army at the end of the day that I built and painted.

So the build will initially be for 40k Kill Team made up of 5 Strike squad members. Looking back at Grey Knights, they have changed quite a bit since their first full codex. This does bug me. As 40k evolves things change, armies change tiers etc it is part of the evolution. With Grey Knights this hurts the army as you have 3 Dedicated Boxes, and by "Dedicated" I mean only available to the Grey Knights, for the Army:

• Nemesis Dreadknight- Builds NDK or with some conversion work Grand Master variant.
• Terminators-  Builds Grey Knight Terminators, Paladins, Banner Bearers (both versions) and Apothecary.
• Strike Squad- Purgation, Strike, Intercessor, and Purifier Squad. 

The weapon load outs keep changing in ability and point value.  A Marine with a bolter is a marine with a bolter. A Grey Knight with a halbred used to be scary now not so much. Plus with the various weapon load outs available it is hard to chose the right load out on the model.  Some games I may want the attacks on my guys some games I may just want to cleave armor for the squads. 

Strike squads box sets consist of 10 dudes now (used to be 5) and you get 4 sprues of parts. Here is the list of weapons you get:

1.  6 pairs of Falchions
2. 2 Daemon Hammers
3. 2 Ward Staves
4. 8 Swords
5. 6 Halbreds
6. 4 Psycannons
7. 2 Incinerators
8. 2 Psilencers
9. 16 Stormbolter arms

My plan is to run a Strike squad as the following: 

• Strike Sgt- Storm Bolter, Daemon Hammer
• Strike team member- Storm bolter Falchions
• 2 Strike team Members- Storm Bolter Swords
• Strike team member- Psilencer

But the amount of games under my belt this might not be the most beneficial load out I could take. and well the Daemon hammer does have the -1 to hit on a 2 attack model. 

Enter Magnets.....yes as nutty as this sounds I will be magnetizing my models just to deal with the "oh here are your new rules, that out date your load outs. 

Magnetizing guide for Grey Knights.

In the link there is a guide to Game Face Nation's 2 part Youtube video on how to magnetize Grey Knights and well any model. 

With the True scaling of the marines, Cinematic effects, rub and buff paint scheme, why not magnetize them too. 

Outside of Kill Team I am planning to expand it to  smallish army of Grey Knights starting at 500pts lead by a Brother Champion, Strike Squad (same as above), Interceptor Squad (Daemon Hammer, 2 Falchions, 2 Swords), and a Purgation Squad (Daemon Hammer 4 Psilencers).

From Games Workshop

Grey Knight Strike squad (arms, weapons, and accessories)

Mk IV Space Marines (Head, Torso, Legs, Shoulder pads, and maybe backpacks)

Since my Marines will be MK IV Space Marines form Betrayal at Calth, My Brother Champion will be based off of this model

All Models will be based on a the Sector Mechanicus Bases with a magnet underneath. 

PSilencers will modified using the PSilencers and heavy Bolters like pictured below

Zinge Industries Small Linked Ammo Belt (Pedro Kantor Syle) for my storm bolters

Armorcast Cinematic effects 

Storm bolters

PSilencers

Ginfritter Gnomish Workshops Decals

Squad numbers

From Chapter Customizer

Exorcists logo

Squad Markings

Shapeways parts

from The Reliquary 

Interceptor back packs

From Tight Bore Designs 

Ammo boxes for the storm bolter belt feeds. 

more ideas are floating around but not sure if i will do them......

New Kill Team side projects

Well 40k Kill Team pre-orders went live yesterday and of course I pre-ordered stuff.

First off the most important things:

Gotta have rules to play the game and the cover is just gorgeous.

Cards I may need them and wanted them....

Killzone Sector Mechanicus- Desert landscape refinery....Perfect for Khymara.

This was a complete impulse buy......but hey I figure I can put my 2014 Bolter & Chainsword patch on it. 

Proud member and supporter since 2007

Around the web if you search hard enough you can find links and some of the rules for Kill Team on line and hopefully you FLGS has a demo copy.

Originally When I  designed Raptors Kill "Team 7" it was on a whim of what models I wanted 

Clock Wise from top left: Dane, Slayton, Chang, Fairchild, Cash, Sgt Lynch, Cray

I figured the out Team 7 would cost me 117 pts using 40k point values. It was then announced it teams were 100 pts max.... with the info out my team now costs 97 pts which means Team 7 will be ready for paint and basing soon....once im off this crazy schedule. 

And if you wonder why they are called Team 7, They are based off the Wildstorm comic book of the same name. 

Veteran Sgt Lynch aka "Topkick" Slayton "Backlash", Fairchild "Slaphammer", Chang " Bulleteer", Dane "Arclight", Cray "Deathblow", and Cash "Deadeye" before he becomes Grifter. 

But you said side projects......

Well I always wanted a Grey Knight army but didn't want to paint them silver. I always wanted an Exorcist army but no chapter tactic kind of blows and I'm not a fan of pick one from the codex to use. It never fit their fluff. 

So with Kill Team I'm starting my Exorcist "count as Grey Knights" army.

Planned build is Mk IV Space Marines, Grey Knight strike squad arms and weapons on sector Mechanicus bases. 

Paint scheme will be using the Rub and Buff technique which I love on these Word Bearers. Since it will be a small unique army I will be using this tutorial to Truescale them. Decals will be supplied from the Chapter Customizer, Ginfritter Gnomish Workshop, and the Betrayal at Calth Word Bearers. I will be doing some other minor conversions, such as Psilencer will be converted out of a Heavy Bolter and Storm Bolters are going belt fed like Pedro Kantor gauntlet mounted Dorn's Arrow.  I ordered everything I need so far for the customization for the first 500 pts I have planned including armorcast's Cinematic effects bursts to have them firing.